Wire down leaves Stratford Town Hall, center of town without power Tuesday morning

Updated 1:15 pm, Tuesday, August 11, 2015

STRATFORD — Officials closed Town Hall for most of the day on Tuesday after a wire came down near the corner of Barnum Avenue and Main Street.

The incident, believed to be weather-related, left Town Hall in the dark, along with a number of surrounding homes and businesses. The wire came down around 10:40 a.m. and initially blacked out about 2,200 customers in the center of town.

Most of these had power restored within an hour, but another 400 remained in the dark until about noontime, United Illuminating said.

By 12:15 p.m., all of the power was restored, although Town Hall remained closed for the rest of the day.